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Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:35:27 -0400

Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden

"Music, I think, he makes me feel like music."

Sat, 11 May 2013 06:48:43 -0400

“Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.”

- Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

"I don’t see what women see in other women,” I’d told Doctor Nolan in my interview..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 06:47:24 -0400

““I don’t see what women see in other women,” I’d told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. “What does a woman see in a woman that she can’t see in a man?”
Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, “Tenderness.””

- Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

Wed, 01 May 2013 17:00:08 -0400

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

"It’s weird how much people change. For example, when I was a kid I loved all of these things -..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 05:36:28 -0400

“It’s weird how much people change. For example, when I was a kid I loved all of these things - like horses and the Fat Feast and Goose Point - and over time all pf them just fell away, one after another, replaced by friends and IMing, and cell phones and boys and clothes. It’s kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there’s no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelwe, or thirteen, or whatever the age is when you’re no longer a kid but a “young adult,” and after that you’re a totally different person. Maybe even a less happy person. Maybe even a worse one.”

- Lauren Oliver - Before I Fall

"Here’s one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 05:31:03 -0400

“Here’s one of the things I learned that morning: if you cross a line and nothing happens, the line loses meaning.”

- Lauren Oliver - Before I Fall

Lauren Oliver - Before I Fall

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:19:31 -0400

Lauren Oliver - Before I Fall

Nicholas Sparks - Message in a Bottle

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 12:06:57 -0500

Nicholas Sparks - Message in a Bottle

"Why don’t you tell me that “if the girl had been worth having she’d have waited..."

Sun, 24 Feb 2013 12:04:11 -0500

“Why don’t you tell me that “if the girl had been worth having she’d have waited for you”? No, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody. If I thought there’d be another one, I’d lose my remaining faith in human nature.”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise

Francis Scott Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 06:59:35 -0500

Francis Scott Fitzgerald - This Side of Paradise

"Happiness is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery."

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 05:07:42 -0500

“Happiness is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald - The Beautiful and Damned

Imre Kerstész - Fateless

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 05:00:40 -0500

Imre Kerstész - Fateless

Patrick Süskind - Perfume (The Story of a Murderer)

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 04:31:34 -0500

Patrick Süskind - Perfume (The Story of a Murderer)

Stanislaw Lem - Solaris

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:47:31 -0500

Stanislaw Lem - Solaris

Alberto Moravia - The Woman of Rome (La romana)

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 08:29:31 -0500

Alberto Moravia - The Woman of Rome (La romana)

"… she wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not the love itself but..."

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 08:22:46 -0500

“… she wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not the love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.”

- Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

"She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all,..."

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 08:20:30 -0500

“She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary.”

- Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:20:07 -0500

Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Markus Zusak - The Book Thief

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 08:09:58 -0500

Markus Zusak - The Book Thief

"You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that..."

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 16:11:42 -0500

“You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.”

- John Green, David Levithan - Will Grayson, Will Grayson